[TUHS] nm on Third Edition .o files?'

[Ron Natalie]

I was referring to the fact that arrays sometimes are types and sometimes
dissolve into pointers to their first elements.    It's a kludgy concept.
Assignment of array objects or passing/returning them should have been
really implemented at the same time sturct passing/return/assignment was
done.
The fact that a function that appears to pass/take array arguments magically
converts to pointers is kludgy.

-----Original Message-----
From: TUHS [mailto:tuhs-bounces at minnie.tuhs.org] On Behalf Of Noel Chiappa
Sent: Tuesday, December 20, 2016 1:45 PM
To: tuhs at minnie.tuhs.org
Cc: jnc at mercury.lcs.mit.edu
Subject: Re: [TUHS] nm on Third Edition .o files?'

    > From: "Ron Natalie"

    > At some point .. and the ability to assign/pass structures got
    > supported, though I thought that was the compiler that came with V7.

That is my vague recollection too.

    > I'm still annoyed they didn't fix arrays when they fixed structs.

Which aspect? The ability to assign/pass/return arrays, or the funky way
that array naming worked (I'm trying to remember the details, I think it was
something to do with 'arrays' passed as arguments - it was actually a
pointer that was passed, but the declaration didn't have to say 'pointer').

	Noel